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sigmoid10 4 hours ago

Title should be "Man arrested for deceptive and antisocial behavior".

The only reason you are seeing this right now is because it has AI in the title.

maplethorpe 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Isn't the technology that enabled the deception noteworthy? Presumably this person wouldn't have been able to do this before AI.

Hypothetically, if a hacking tool was released that let non-technical people hack into sensitive databases, and then a journalist wrote the headline "local man hacks IRS", without any mention of the tool, wouldn't that be a bit irresponsible, to purposely leave that information out?

tete 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Presumably this person wouldn't have been able to do this before AI.

Photoshop? I don't think you need much skill.

notahacker an hour ago | parent | next [-]

A person who had a Photoshop licence, had played around with layers and colour balance before and was sufficiently motivated to make it look convincing to spend a bit of time tidying it up, sure they could. But I'm not sure that necessarily applies to random people making funny memes of the wolf in their neighbourhood...

conartist6 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

To make a shooped image good enough to fool the police into think they're looking at a completely real picture, you'd think it would take a reasonable amount of skill. If nothing else you need an exact match picture in terms of lighting and perspective.

sigmoid10 an hour ago | parent [-]

I guess people here are too young to remember things like the WTC plane guy. Half the people online thought it was genuine, while he did it for the lulz in a few minutes. Nobody cared about inconsistent lighting and perspective. Same way most people don't care about the obvious hallmarks of diffusion model generated pictures today.

maplethorpe an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Creating a photorealistic mashup in Photoshop, without AI, takes a lot of skill. Just getting the shadows looking correct takes enough skill in itself, and that's only part of it.

Have you used Photoshop before? You come across as commenting on something you don't understand.

Loughla 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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ForHackernews 22 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

People have lied to the authorities without AI.

latexr 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The technology used is very much relevant, because the ease of access and easiness of production are likely to have been the biggest contributors. Had they had to open an image editor and spend a few hours to make something convincing, they would’ve been much less likely to do so, assuming this particular person even had the skills, and would have had multiple opportunities to change their mind.

It’s a crime of opportunity¹, one where you have the idea and act on it on a whim. No opportunity, no crime, and the technology provided the opportunity.

So yes, the technology used matters.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_of_opportunity

jamesnorden 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The one time the headline isn't misleading, you want it changed?

AussieWog93 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes, it's an interesting and novel thing about a topic many people here are interested in.

mminer237 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That would be so vague as to be useless.

heddycrow 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I so wish this were true. Put AI in the title, garner instant attention.

raincole 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Except the actual title here is clearer. Your suggestion is so anti-AI-clickbait that it overflew and became a bad title again.

If Tesla (insert any car manufacturer you hate) ran over a kid I'd like to see the title say it, instead of "Tesla fined for violating traffic laws."

darkwater 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, and at the same time we should ask the question: would the intersection between "people who think this is a funny thing to do" and "people with the technical capabilities to actually generate something that misleads police" [1] return a value > 0 before GenAI?

[1] waiting for some example where fool policemen where outsmarted with simple tricks /s